The actors were given the salary of the least-paid cast member, meaning Aniston and Schwimmer had their salaries reduced.

Though, in her defense, she thought she was doing something nice. Witherspoon’s character attempts to date Ross (David Schwimmer), which, if you know know anything about “Friends,” you know is a major no-no and infraction of the sister code. R.,” George Clooney guest-starred as a dreamy doctor on “Friends” alongside fellow “E. In the Season 1 two-parter, Monica (Courteney Cox) and Rachel switch identities so Rachel can use Monica’s insurance.

It’s there they meet the doctors and then attempt to keep the identity swap going on a double date.

More and more, however, these once cosy get-togethers have begun to resemble something more akin to a self-help group than a chance to catch up over a low-fat latte.

Which is hardly surprising, perhaps, given the increasingly parlous state of their respective careers - not to mention the trio's equally disastrous private lives.

Friends is an American television sitcom, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which ....

Joey rooms with his best friend Chandler for years, and later with Rachel. The actors were given the salary of the least-paid cast member, meaning .....

Suffice to say that, these days, their meetings are hardly a bundle of laughs. After four years during which his career has resembled a tundra-like wasteland and following the humiliating cancellation of his Friends spin-off series, Joey, in 2006, he has at long last landed another acting job.

On the face of it, his new role does not sound like the sort of thing that one might imagine Le Blanc - who played the dim-witted Joey Tribbiani in Friends - would instantly have been attracted to.

USA Today's Robert Bianco described the finale as entertaining and ... Twenty years ago today, a bunch of 20-somethings hooked us with their sitcom ...